Frédéric Bauden, Ph.D. (1996), Université de Liège, is Professor of Arabic Language and Islamic Studies at that university. He has published extensively on the history, historiography and diplomatics of the Mamluk period. He is the editor of the book series Bibliotheca Maqriziana.Élise Franssen, Ph.D. (2012), Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow (2018-21). A specialist of codicology, she is currently working on the holograph volume of al-Ṣafadī’s Tadhkira and on her book on the manuscripts of the ZER recension of the Thousand and One Nights.

• PrefaceList of Authors' Handwritings Appearing on the Cover ImageList of FiguresList of Diagrams and TablesList of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction2 Comment reconnaître un autographe parmi les papyrus littéraires grecs? L’ exemple du P. Oxy. 74.4970Marie-Hélène Marganne3 Arabic Holographs: Characteristics and TerminologyAdam Gacek4 “Bi-khaṭṭ muʾallifihi” … Vraiment?! L’ apport de l’ analyse judiciaire d’ écritures à l’ étude des manuscrits arabesÉlise Franssen5 Maqriziana XV: The Characteristics of al-Maqrīzī’s HandwritingFrédéric Bauden6 The Art of Copying: Mamlūk Manuscript Culture in Theory and PracticeElias Muhanna7 The Holograph Notebooks of Akmal al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Mufliḥ (d. 1011/1603)Kristina Richardson8 Al-ʿAynī’s Working Method for His Chronicles: Analysis of His Autographical ManuscriptsNobutaka Nakamachi9 Textual Criticism on of the Manuscripts of Ibn Khaldūn’s Autobiographical ManuscriptsRetsu Hashizume10 Les safīnas yéménitesJulien Dufour and Anne RegourdList of Quoted ManuscriptsIndex of NamesIndex of PlacesIndex of Technical Terms

“This is an important volume and a giant step forward in the research on Arabic manuscripts.” Jan Just Witkam, Leiden University Institute of Area Studies (lias), Leiden in: Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 12, Issue 2 (April 2022).